On 7/18/25 8:18 AM, Walter Harms wrote:

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What makes a valid variant though?
There is no upstream supported glibc older than 2.32.
There is no upstream supported Linux older than 5.4 (LTS).

Maybe, i am using a LOT of embedded Systems and they are using sometimes
really old stuff. So sometimes i am thankfull for information about older variants.

There is always a matching version of the man-pages that is
the same age as the sources you're working with... and so
documents the conditions under which the software was
developed?

reminder: man pages are not for server stuff only.

Absolutely agreed. Wherever you can cram a Linux kernel and
userspace :-)

Same goes for older programms, you can only understand when you have the old documentation.

This supports Elliot's comment that you can use the older versions
of the man-pages releases for these?

So as long as IA64 is in use, there is a chance some need that info.

That information is not being removed from the git history or the
available releases.

e.g. git checkout man-pages-1.70

There are tags going back to 2004.

And very old archives:

https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/Archive/

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.